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UNT’s nickname defense goes national
infringe on UNTs brand.
“This was an honest oversight and
the spot is being adjusted to remove the
Mean Green reference,” ESPN said in a
statement provided to the Denton Re-
cord-Chronicle. “We have been in
touch with the leadership at North Tex-
as and they are appreciative. Michigan
State had no involvement in the cre-
ation of the promo spot.”
UNT’s mascot is an Eagle, but the
school has gradually moved toward
using Mean Green as the nickname
for all of its teams over the last several
Green,” Baker wrote.
“It’s trademarked and
has been for a very,
very long time. Cease
and desist letter on
the way.”
The dispute was
resolved by late
Wednesday morning,
when Baker issued a statement:
“I’ve spoken with officials from
ESPN this morning regarding the com-
mercial promoting the Michigan vs.
Michigan State football game this
weekend,” Baker wTote. “ESPN correc-
ted the commercial once becoming
aware of the issue. I also received com-
munication from [athletic director]
Mark Hollis at Michigan State, wrho ful-
ly understands the importance of the
Mean Green brand to UNT’’
ESPN said it did not intentionally
Athletic director blocks
ESPN game promo that
uses ‘Mean Green’
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By Brett Vito
Staff Writer
bvito@dentonrc.com
University of North Texas athletic
director Wren Baker and ESPN quickly
settled their dispute over the nickname
“Mean Green” on Wednesday.
Baker took to Twitter on Tuesday
night after ESPN used Mean Green in
reference to Michigan State University
in a commercial promoting its broad-
cast of the Spartans’ game against the
University of Michigan on Saturday.
Baker defended the school’s exclu-
sive right to the Mean Green nickname.
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The common misconception is that
the nickname is a reference to “Mean”
Joe Greene, a former UNT defensive
lineman who is considered one of the
greatest players in program history.
Twitter/@nick_pants
“Mean Green” appears in this screen shot of ESPN's commercial promot-
ing the upcoming Michigan vs. Michigan State football game, which was
posted by Twitter user @nick_pants on Tuesday.
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Smatresk
opposed
Trump Jr.
speech
TODAY
IN DENTON
SOLID DRAMA
Firefighters rescue a
little girl locked in gun
safe at Denton store
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By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
jgill@dentonrc.com
The little girl didn’t know a growing
crowd wras rooting for her safety as Den-
ton firefighters pried open a gun safe she
had been trapped in for more than 30
minutes Tuesday evening.
Thankfully, the story had a happy
ending. She was safe, uninjured and
didn’t even seem upset after her dramat-
ic rescue at the Academy Sports and
Outdoors store in the 2600 block of
West University Drive. Fire officials said
the girl was either 4 or 5 years old.
Kenneth Hedges, a fire department
spokesman, said firefighters received the
emergency call at 6:42 pan. Tuesday and
arrived at the Academy store at 6:52
p.m. It’s unclear exactly how long the girl
had been in the safe before the emergen-
cy call, Hedges said.
“This is a very specialized incident,
and you don’t get these very often,” he
said.
REGIONAL
UNT president wrote in
email he tried to stop it
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By Gromer Jeffers Jr. and Sue Ambrose
The Dallas Morning News
The president of the University of
North Texas said he tried but failed to stop
Donald Trump Jr. from giving a high-pro-
file speech at the school later tins month,
according to emails he sent faculty mem-
bers.
Lewisville is jumping into
the race to land the huge
Amazon corporate cam-
pus. The Denton County
suburb has teamed up
with developer Bright
Realty to pitch a 135-acre
commercial development
site in the Castle Hills
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Neal Smatresk, the
president of UNT, wrote
he was “not enthused”
that the president’s son
would be the keynote
speaker at a lecture se-
ries financed and ar-
ranged by major donors.
“I am trying to stop it,
but it isn’t an easy tiling,”
he wrote in August to a
professor who expressed
concern about the
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Firefighters were initially concerned
the girl wasn’t getting enough oxygen in
the safe, which w7as on display at the
front of the store. But she didn’t appear
to be under any stress while she was
communicating with her mother from
inside, Hedges said.
The events leading up to the incident
are still unclear, Hedges said. Respond-
ing firefighters don’t know7 whether the
girl locked herself inside or not.
Hedges said “one or tw7o kids” w7ere
with the mother at the time, but he
didn’t know whether they were involved.
The fire department didn’t identify
the girl. Hedges said no investigation is
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Smatresk
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difficult than I expected,”
he wrote in another note.
Smatresk’s exchanges
were among more than a
thousand pages of emails obtained by The
Dallas Morning News through a public-
records request. The correspondence
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Solemn in the face of
tragedy, President Don-
ald Trump visited hospi-
tal bedsides and a vital
police base in stricken
Las Vegas on Wednes-
day, offering prayers and
condolences to the vic-
tims of Sunday night’s
shooting massacre, along
writh the nation’s thanks
to first responders and
doctors who rushed to
save lives.
Trump Jr.
Courtesy photo/Denton Fire Department
A young girl, either 4 or 5 years old, was locked inside this gun safe for at
least 32 minutes Tuesday evening at the Academy Sports and Outdoors
store in the 2600 block of West University Drive in Denton. Firefighters
eventually had to pry it open with hand tools.
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United Way evolving to meet residents’ needs
draise, and we need to grow that... but at
the same time we’re going to grow7 our ca-
pacity to be an active agent. We w7ant to
convene people, w7e want to be backbone
support, w7e want to coordinate and facil-
itate.”
By Jenna Duncan
Staff Writer
jduncan @ dentonrc. com
The United Way of Denton County
2017 is fundamentally different than it was
when Gary Henderson came on board as
CEO in 201L
The following year, in 2012, the non-
profit’s board of directors made a philoso-
phy switch: United Way needed to do
more than vet and fund nonprofits in the
area. The organization should lead the
way for the county in macro-social w7ork:
Building systems, processes and oversight
where none exist.
“Our 2012 strategic plan articulated a
five-year vision where we would expand
collective impact work, which you can
think of as collaboration on steroids but
it’s veiy structured collaboration,” Hen-
derson said. ‘We will continue to fun-
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To guide its wrork, the organization has
released its 2017 Community Needs As-
sessment, winch was last completed in
2011. Overall, the report shows the United
Way staff a lot of tilings it needs to work on
through high-impact statistics, such as 62
percent of Denton County kindergarten-
ers didn’t attend pre-K and half of the
homeless population in Denton is work-
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Gary Henderson, CEO of United Way of Denton County, stands by the nonprof-
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